At least 32 people have been killed and 66 others injured after two trains collided in southern Egypt.
The train crash north of the city of Sohag caused three passenger cars to flip over, health authorities said.
Local media displayed videos from the scene around 230 miles south of Cairo showing flipped wagons with passengers trapped inside and surrounded by rubble.
Some victims seemed unconscious, while others could be seen bleeding. Bystanders carried bodies, laying them out on the ground near the site of the crash.
It was not immediately what caused the derailment close to the Nile-side town of Tahta. The public prosecutor’s office said it had ordered an investigation.
“The trains collided while going at not very high speeds, which led to the destruction of two carriages and a third to overturn,” a security source told Reuters.
Casualties were being taken to hospitals and 36 ambulances were dispatched to the scene, the health ministry said.
Egypt’s railway system has a history of badly maintained equipment and poor management. Official figures show that 1,793 train accidents took place in 2017 across the country.
In 2018, a passenger train derailed near the southern city of Aswan, injuring at least six people and prompting authorities to fire the chief of the country’s railways.
In the same year, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said the government lacks about 250 billion Egyptian pounds, or $14.1 billion, to overhaul the run-down rail system.
El-Sissi spoke a day after a passenger train collided with a cargo train, killing at least 12 people, including a child.
A year earlier, two passenger trains collided just outside the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, killing 43 people. In 2016, at least 51 people were killed when two commuter trains collided near Cairo.
Egypt’s deadliest train crash took place in 2002, when over 300 people were killed when fire erupted in speeding train traveling from Cairo to southern Egypt.